Yuwa

About Us

Yuwa is an internationally acclaimed non-governmental
organization that uses football (soccer) and education to put girls in charge of their
own futures. Yuwa is registered as a 501(c)3
nonprofit organization in the USA and as a Trust in India.

Yuwa is based in villages in the Ranchi district of Jharkhand, where girls are
especially at risk of dropping out of school, early marriage, violence, and human trafficking. Through the creation of football teams, girls
gain leadership skills and confidence, continue their education, and are less
likely to be forced into child marriage. Here, teamwork is a powerful force to promote health, education
and improved livelihoods among the most important agents of change—young women.

Yuwa
has been featured in Al-Jazeera, Huffington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, BBC, Sports Illustrated, Hindustan Times, Times of India, NDTV, Times
Now, Indian Express, The Hindu, Scroll, ABC News and other media in India and
internationally. Recent awards include:

In June 2015, we launched Yuwa School for Girls in Hutup village, Jharkhand.
The vision of our school is: Every girl’s future in her own hands.
Our mission is to enable students to reach their full academic potential,
develop critical and creative thinking skills, and become compassionate,
empowered leaders in their communities.

Our current campus supports 85 students and 8 full-time teachers. The school
will run on this campus until mid-2017, when building of our permanent and
residential campus will be completed.

Yuwa is an internationally acclaimed non-governmental
organization that uses football (soccer) and education to put girls in charge of their
own futures. Yuwa is registered as a 501(c)3
nonprofit organization in the USA and as a Trust in…